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I think Jaimoe is the only original member surviving. Never got to meet Dickey unfortunately, drank a couple beers with Gregg Allman at Bike Week in Daytona Beach years ago. Next to the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers is my 2nd favorite band.

Looks like Hobby Link Japan has already presold their allotment. I've got two kits on pre-order through them and 2 more from another source. I suspect this will be a good selling kit.

I'm thinking of sanding the running boards flat, and using textured tape or vinyl to simulate the pyramid design of 30-31 running board rubber. As an aside, I like that they used a '31 Rad shell. It is a lot easier to backdate a '31 shell into a '30 then vice versa. Some styrene pieces and you could easily replicate the Gaz rand shell which is nothing more than an AA truck shell(and 4 row radiator as opposed to 3 row on passenger cars & light trucks on 1:1 stuff)

If it's anything like the '72 CB350 I owned it'd be a fun bike. Build quality was quite good, I was able to source all needed parts easily, some the local Honda dealer had in stock. (this was in the late 90s). Stone dead reliable, it never left me stranded and always started. While I can't speak for the 750, I really enjoyed my little 350. Bought it at a yard sale for $25, put another $300 into it and rode it for 2 years. I rode it more than I rode the '59 Panhead that I also owned back then. Should've held onto both, but when the farm sold I lost my storage.

ICM posted these pics on their Facebook page yesterday. Posting here for those who haven't seen it. In my opinion, it sure looks like the way they did the sprues it'd be real easy to do different bodies fairly easily. Bring on the Victoria, A-400, Tudor & Fordor Sedans, Deluxe Phaeton. One could do these without having to create a new fender mold.

Some Tex-Mex and a little walk on the near deserted beach afterwards made a great way to kill a couple hours. We're in that lull period between the time the snowbirds have left & right before the summer crowds so I'm taking advantage of it while I can.

How about the VFW/AMVets halls like mentioned above? Lots of times those sit empty and I'd wager they'd be welcome the extra income.

Had some time to kill today & hit up the local indoor flea market. The usual flotsam & jetsam that you see in such places, but there was one booth that had 4 kits one of which followed me home. Seems the '56 Nomad is getting hard to find at a good price, much less the corrected version.

One of my absolute favorite model Swap/shows is held in a big open air pavilion at a county park. In addition to the park venue, I've been to shows held at Shriner's Halls, hotel ballrooms, community room at a retirement home, several churches one of which the church ladies sold a very solid lunch with hamburger, potato salad, chips & drink for $4. While not model car related, the Solid Axle Corvette club I was a member of even held a meeting in the chapel of the funeral home I worked at when our normal venue suddenly became unavailable that month. There's a lot of venues for cheap, sometimes you just gotta poke around!

I see these guys all the time living here in Florida. The 1:1 cars are a little more tan than the model you posted. I think the closest you'll get in the Tamiya line of spray cans is TS-46 Light Sand and if you do a white or light grey primer coat it'd be even better. As an aside back in the 90s FHP used Fox body 5.0 Mustangs. I had just finished up the restoration of my '62 Galaxie Convertible. 390/375HP 3x2's & 4speed. I was out on some backroads letting the old girl stretch her legs. One of those FHP Mustangs passed me going the other way, he must've been running radar as he turned around and hit the blue light. My dad said "that 390 can walk that Mustang, hammer down!" That Mustang got smaller & smaller in the mirror but I learned about 5 miles down the road you can't outrun the radio! After the chewing out and no ticket(one of the guys waiting on us was a family friend, thank God), the Mustang guy says "Son just what do you have in that thing? I was giving it all I had & you just kept pulling away" Thanks for letting me ramble and apologies for the thread drift!

ICM posted this on their Facebook page. I may pick up a set as it's a good excuse to try their paint. I've read decent reviews about it online so this is good as reason as any to give it a shot.

They could do a Victoria, A-400, any of the Tudor & Fordor Sedans using the tooling they have now. Coupes, Roadster & Pickups used a different rear fender. I would love to see a 1/24 or 1/25 Model Y kit. Somewhat of a novelty over here, but a club member had one about 20 years ago and would bring it out on tours. I thought it was the neatest thing.

The Merritt Island, FL store still has a good selection of kits left. a Few '57 Corvettes, Pintos, Charger, Joker Dodge Monaco, and all the Barris BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH.

Al Jourgensen of Ministry fame covers Friend of the Devil by the Grateful Dead. I'd love to see him do a metal cover of this song!

I didn't take a photo of it, but you can see it in the background of this shot. It's some kind of rat rod truck type deal with different make parts on it.